/lit/ - Literature

>>5609568
>it seems there needs to be a sticky to explain basic literary concepts, that's what it's come to

oh please explain I beseech you

>40 foot tall underwater succubus
>meet enslaved time traveling green man
>cannibalism imparts victim's memories
>cyborgs
>witches send you to spirit world
>find a portal to a different Universe
>find a gem that revives people
>body altering drugs
>all the females want to fuck you

name the book?

>>5565593

Marxism plz go.

>>4436662

>I mean that in the most unflattering sense

Such imposing. Very fear.

>"Can I take a look at this?"
>Sure thing
>5 min later
>"What's this shit?"
>she's holding Kafka's The Metamorphosis

Is there any hope for my grandma?

>>4165911

Hmmm let me Wikipedia this guy...

>"Buber was an Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher"

seems suspicious already....let see what else

>In 1902 Buber became the editor of the weekly Die Welt, the central organ of the Zionist movement.

uhhhh....

>white buddhists

convince people to buy insurance they don't need for a hefty price.

>>3785778
>when you run out of money go scrounge for some. then steal some food. get thrown in prison.

that sounds like a hassle worse than wage labor
plus i could never steal, would feel disgusting

>>3779524

wait wut

>>3763816
>Judaism is the correct belief system.


>implying humans are infallible when it comes to picking their religions
>implying ancient myths are true

this is my favorite joke

I'd pick buddha

>>3732363
>Because he was one of the smartest thinkers who has ever lived.

prove it

>>3687822
>OP should read Austrian economics to get started on theory
>austrian economics
>arm chair philosophizing about empirical matters
>taught no where in the world, and taken seriously by no economists

So this guy purposely went on disability support so he could think, write, and devote his life to philosophy.

He saw a psychiatrist and argued that his purpose in life is to find "the truth" and contemplate philosophy deeply instead of working a normal 9-5.

After 18 months of review they made up some sort of disorder and he has been living comfortably off disability since 1994.

>At root, my condition was philosophical, rather than medical. I was applying for the DSP on the basis that I had a strong philosophic nature and valued wisdom “excessively”.
>Even though my livelihood was on the line, I found the whole situation very amusing and I had a lot of fun dealing with the system in this manner.

>That was in 1994, and now it is 2012 and I am still on this pension, which means for all that time I have been receiving an income from the government – that is to say, from the Australian taxpayers – and have contributed nothing of any economic value in return.

http://geniusrealms.com/blogosphere/?p=269

This is the type of support a lot of writers, thinkers and artists need. Without having to label us as suffering from a disorder.

What motivates someone to write a book?

It's a strange thing to do. I don't think writers write in order to read their own stories, that would seem like jerking off to a picture of yourself.